RPP #196: Dan Avida of Engageli




Rod's Pulse Podcast show

Summary: Click the Title to Play or Download. Interview with Dan Avida, CEO, and Co-Founder of Engageli. "Engageli's digital learning platform enables higher-ed institutions to provide educators and learners with an active, social, collaborative, inclusive and engaging learning experience."  We discuss:  Dan Avida, CEOBackground of founders including Dan's wife Daphne Koller, co-founder of CourseraWorks in class or online (synchronous or asynchronous) and hybridNo need for breakout roomsStudent "table" with the group of peers: "Learn with Friends"Students can talk at the same time as the instructorIn-class students log in so they can take notes and capture instructors screenIn-class student presses button to ask questions - other mics are muted Polls and quizzes embedded into presentationsRecordings, notetaking, captioning built into the platformIntegrated with the LMS using LTIWorks with Chromebooks - no app to downloadVideo is not re-streamed  Supports thousands of students in a class using TAs  Extensive analytics to detect students at risk AI and ML coming in a future release Podsafe music selection Hachiko by The Kyoto Connection Duration: 40:15